In reply:

We thank Dr. Borek et al1 for their interest in our study. As with any clinical study, the active drug and placebo groups were not identically balanced in all respects. The slight imbalances in race and ethnicity were small and not statistically significant; and no biologically plausible mechanism or previous research suggests that race and ethnicity affect copperhead envenomation outcomes.

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